[libvirt] Start of freeze for libvirt-0.9.10 and availability of rc1

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Feb 9 23:32:46 UTC 2012


On 02/06/2012 12:21 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   We are now entering the freeze for libvirt-0.9.10
> Hopefully all the API changes needed for that version are
> already commited to git head.
> 
> I have made a release candidate 1 tarball (and associated rpms) at
>    ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.9.10-rc1.tar.gz
> and the git tree is tagged.
> 
> I think I will make an release candidate 2 tarball on Wednesday, and
> I'm hoping for a final release next Monday the 13th.
> 
>  Please give it a try !

I'm wondering if we're too late for one more API to round out the API we
added in this release.  Qemu is proposing a new monitor command
system_wakeup which lets the host inject a power-button wakeup to a
guest that has gone into S3 sleep.  Since we added the
virDomainPMSuspendForDuration command to put the guest into S3 from the
host, I think we need a counterpart API that wakes the guest back up,
rather than relying on mouse clicks, serial input, or timeouts doing the
job for us.  It's a shame that virDomainResume() has no flags argument,
and that it is already tied to virDomainSuspend() (aka guest pause), so
I'm thinking something like:

/* Inject a wakeup into the guest that previously used
 * virDomainPMSuspendForDuration, rather than waiting for the
 * previously requested duration (if any) to elapse. */
int virDomainPMWakeup(virDomainPtr dom, unsigned int flags);

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Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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